The University of Western Ontario
The Economics Newsletter
April 5, 2013 Editor: Sharon Phillips

Upcoming Workshops

Monday
April 8
David Fieldhouse (Western)
"Aggregate Fluctuations, Consumer Credit and Bankruptcy"
(joint with Igor Livshits and Jim MacGee)
12:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Money/Macro
Monday
April 8
Rahul Deb (University of Toronto)
"Symmetric Auctions"
(joint with Malesh Pai)
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Economic Theory
Tuesday
April 9
Keting Shen (Shejiang Gongshang University)
"Capital-Labour-Energy Substitution and a Nested CES Production
Function for China"
11:30 a.m., Room 4161 SSC
Ontario Research
Fund (ORF)
Tuesday
April 9
Brandon Malloy & Youngmin Park (Western)
"The Supply Network and Price Dispersion in the Canadian Gasoline
Market"
"On the Political Economy of Financial Regulation"
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Money/Macro
Thursday
April 11
César Sosa Padilla (McMaster University)
"Sovereign Defaults and Banking Crises"
3:30 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Money/Macro


News and Announcements

Committee on Academic Policy (CAP) Minutes 2012-2013

The CAP Minutes for 2012-2013 are posted on the Economics Intranet for you to review. Your username and password are required to access this information.

Western Summer Institute for Longitudinal Data Analysis - Registration Deadline

Western will offer the Western Summer School in Longitudinal Data Analysis, consisting of four courses that are relevant to a range of researchers in the social, health, business and physical worlds who are doing research that involves understanding change over time. The courses will take place from May 6 to 17, 2013. The deadline for registration is April 30, 2013.

European Summer Institute 2013

Prague's Centre for Public Policy announces the forthcoming European Summer Institute 2013 (ESI 2013) on the Future of Europe: Lobbying in Brussels that will take place June 29 - July 6, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. This seven-day academic program is designed to bring together 30 undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds to deepen their knowledge of the current EU politics through exchange of ideas with academics, policy practitioners and fellow students from different cultural environments. The early bird application deadline is April 30, 2013 and the final deadline is May 15, 2013.

Belpasso International Summer School on Environmental and Resource Economics - Call for Applications

The Department of Agri-food and Environmental Systems Management (DiGeSA) at the University of Catania, along with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and the support of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists  (EAERE), will hold the Belpasso International Summer School on Environmental and Resource Economics, Frontiers in Economics of Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction - Financing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation, in Belpasso, Italy on September 1-7, 2013. The application deadline is May 15, 2013.

Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business (IDJRB) - Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business (IDJRB) is a monthly international peer reviewed research journal, that addresses both theoretical and empirical issues in the fields of business, management, finance, economics, marketing, commerce and other related areas. IDJRB welcomes high quality empirical and theoretical research papers, case studies, literature reviews and book reviews from researchers, academicians, practitioners and students from all over the world.


Research Notices

Please submit a hard copy (pdf copy by email) of all research grant applications (including contracts), internal and external, to Karin for review and subsequent Chair approval/signature prior to electronically submitting your applications.

In addition, completion and electronic submission of a Proposal via ROLA must be filled out be all applicants to obtain institutional approvals for their research grant/contract applications. Please see Karin if  you need assistance.

Funding Announcements